PledgeBank Everywhere
I’ll do it, but only if you’ll help

Pledge “jornalistas-cwb”

"Prometo solicitar aos 3 senadores do Paraná (Álvaro Dias, Flávio Arns e Osmar Dias) que aprovem o projeto que atualiza a legislação profissional dos jornalistas, incluindo funções como a de Assessor de Imprensa, mas só se 20 outros colegas, de veículos e de assessorias de Curitiba, se comprometerem a fazer fizerem o mesmo, numa primeira etapa, e motivarem os de outras cidades paranaenses."

— Creso Moraes, da Enfoque Comunicação & Eventos

Deadline to sign up by: 5^th April 2006
39 people signed up (19 over target)

Country: Brazil
Place: Curitiba (view map)

Pledge “yellowikis”

"I will withdraw my advert in Yellow Pages and Yell.com unless Yell.com ceases its unfair and unfounded legal threat against the owners of "Yellowiki.com" but only if 10 other people will do the same."

— Richard Quick, http://www.richardquickdesign.com

Deadline to sign up by: 15^th August 2006
15 people signed up (5 over target)

Pledge “Bristolday”

"I will give my staff the day off on 'Bristol Day' - an unofficial bank holiday, 26th October 2007, but only if 10 businesses or other organisations will do the same."

— Andrew Parkhouse

Deadline to sign up by: 1^st October 2007
10 people signed up

Country: United Kingdom

Pledge “kivaloan2”

"I will lend another $25 to a Kiva business but only if 3 other people will do the same."

— Kara Shallenberg

Deadline to sign up by: 31^st July 2007
3 people signed up

Pledge “Insidersclub”

"I will Write to the London stock exchange and ask them to investigate the sale of shares in Northern Rock by the large institutions in the last 2 months.Did they know the Banks would refuse to lend to Northern Rock,even when the bank of England is happy to lend to this profitable Bank.This smells of insider trading to me. but only if 20 other local people will do the same."

— Caroline Western

Deadline to sign up by: 25^th November 2007
20 people signed up

Country: United Kingdom

Pledge “StopRIAA”

"I will never buy another CD or song from RIAA member until the RIAA campaign of intimidation of Internet users is stopped. While I consider illegal sharing illegal and immoral, making any private citizen pay more than $200K for sharing 24 songs and in effect ruining his or her live in order to support the lavish lifestyles of RIAA member executives and artists is even more immoral and insane. but only if 1 other local people will do the same."

— Tim

Deadline to sign up by: 5^th November 2008
12 people signed up (11 over target)

Country: United States

Pledge “BankshelpBank”

"I will hand out flyers to 10,000 (ten thousand) people in, or round, Newcastle encouraging them to open a new account with Northern Rock but only if 10 other local people will do the same."

— EDMUND

Deadline to sign up by: 25^th December 2007
10 people signed up

Country: United Kingdom

Pledge “Kiva-loans”

"I will continue lending to the Kiva micro-credit organization but only if 10 other local people will do the same."

— Lilliam Hurst, Citizen of the World

Deadline to sign up by: 2^nd December 2008
17 people signed up (7 over target)

Pledge “securecodesucks”

"I will complain to the retailers, banks, credit card companies and to government about every Verified By Visa or MasterCard SecureCode instance I see but only if 15 other online shoppers will do the same."

— Tom Morris

Deadline to sign up by: 1^st July 2009
16 people signed up (1 over target)

Country: United Kingdom

Pledge “shopinBoscombe”

"I will do all of my shopping in Boscombe for the next 9 weeks but only if 10 other local people will join me."

— Lisa Northover, Councillor for Boscombe West

Deadline to sign up by: 25^th December 2009
10 people signed up

Country: United Kingdom
Postcode area: BH5 (view map)

Pledge “SaveXmarks”

"I will give 10 dollars right away to Xmarks and subscribe to their premium service (i.e. about 10 dollar every year) but only if 1,000 other people will do the same and Xmarks keep their service alive and continue to develop it going forward."

— Thorsten Biegner, Xmarks lover

Deadline to sign up by: 10^th January 2011
1,021 people signed up (21 over target)

Pledge “FBATools”

"I will make FBA tools available via the web but only if 20 other FBA sellers will sign up for the service for $10."

— Robert Casto, FBA seller and software developer

Deadline to sign up by: 13^th November 2010
22 people signed up (2 over target)

Country: United States

Pledge “Nortonpledge”

"I will at least £5 but only if 20 myfc members will do the same."

— huntdog04

Deadline to sign up by: 27^th February 2012
21 people signed up (1 over target)

Pledge “AmazonPayTax”

"I will Boycott all Amazon products but only if 5 other people will do the same."

— Allan Challenger

Deadline to sign up by: 7^th May 2012
13 people signed up (8 over target)

Country: United Kingdom

Pledge “BGE-KaperbriefHB”

"Ich werde 10€ spenden für die Bestellung von 1000 Kaperbriefen zum BGE für den KV Bremen, wenn 5 andere Menschen das Gleiche tun." (translate)

— Robert Bauer

Deadline to sign up by: 15^th May 2012
6 people signed up (1 over target)

Country: Germany
Place: Bremen, Bremen (view map)

Pledge “Beastly”

"I will spend 10€ for @diebeastly but only if 40 other local people will do the same."

— antiprodukt

Deadline to sign up by: 30^th September 2012
59 people signed up (19 over target)

Pledge “BacktoBackBay”

"I will spend $100 at local Back Bay stores affected by the Boston Marathon Bombing but only if 10 other people will do the same."

— Proud Bostonian, #BacktoBackBay

Deadline to sign up by: 1^st June 2013
11 people signed up (1 over target)

Country: United States
Place: 02116 (view map)

Pledge “scientificreport”

"I will donate £10 to fund the publication of the first of three ground-breaking scientific reports making the case against animal experimentation but only if 100 other people will also do so."

— Chris Anderson, Animal Aid

Deadline to sign up by: 1^st December 2005
112 people signed up (12 over target)

Country: United Kingdom

Pledge “no-sw-patents”

"I will write to my local mp protesting against software patents but only if 40 other people will do the same."

— Alex Shenfield

Deadline to sign up by: 13^th July 2005
66 people signed up (26 over target)

Pledge “signedm92”

"I will write to my MP, asking them to sign EDM 92 calling for an independent enquiry into the efficacy of animal experimentation but only if 200 other people will do the same."

— Chris Anderson, Animal Aid

Deadline to sign up by: 1^st December 2005
213 people signed up (13 over target)

Country: United Kingdom

Pledge “geodata”

"I will sign the manifesto for Open Access to State-Collected Geospatial Data when complete and give £10 toward helping projects creating open geospatial data but only if 50 other people will do the same."

— Steve Coast

Deadline to sign up by: 24^th September 2005
57 people signed up (7 over target)

Pledge “gridgirl”

"I will join www.worldcommunitygrid.org and donate my unused computer processing time to do research on philanthropic causes but only if 20 other people anywhere will do the same."

— Lynne Beaman

Deadline to sign up by: 15^th October 2005
24 people signed up (4 over target)

Pledge “ukperl”

"I will found a UK professional institute for Perl practitioners but only if 10 other people will join it."

— Smylers, Perl Hacker

Deadline to sign up by: 1^st December 2005
13 people signed up (3 over target)

Country: United Kingdom

Pledge “usefirefox”

"I will use the Firefox web browser but only if 100 other people will do the same."

— RobotII, a fed up Internet Explorer user

Deadline to sign up by: 17^th November 2005
124 people signed up (24 over target)

Pledge “iyonixselect”

"I will subscribe for 1 year to the RISC OS Select Iyonix scheme but only if 99 other new subscribers will do the same."

— Phil Mellor, Leeds

Deadline to sign up by: 31^st December 2005
112 people signed up (13 over target)

Country: United Kingdom

Pledge “translate2Ger”

"I will help translate Pledgebank into German but only if 10 other people will do the same."

— Jan Schmidt, interested in political social software

Deadline to sign up by: 15^th December 2005
12 people signed up (2 over target)

Country: Germany

Pledge “softvaroj”

"Mi promesas Disponigi gamon da senpagaj esperanto-softvaroj sed nur se 1 alia persono promesas kunlabori kun mi."

— Lode Van de Velde, Chu "frenezulo" taugas?

Deadline to sign up by: 1^st April 2006
3 people signed up (2 over target)

Pledge “linukso”

"Mi promesas Krei Tutmonda Esperantista Asocio pri GNU/LINUKSO sed nur se 10 aliaj lokaj personoj uzantoj de Linukso, promesas aliĝi kaj kunlabori por ke nia movado pli bone uzu tiun komputilan sistemon."

— Michel BASSO

Deadline to sign up by: 30^th June 2006
37 people signed up (27 over target)

Pledge “versionfrancais”

"I will translate PledgeBank into French but only if 10 others will help."

— Eoin Dubsky

Deadline to sign up by: 1^st May 2006
11 people signed up (1 over target)

Pledge “developgreentv”

"I will help develop the green.tv community but only if 25 other commited people who care about the environment will do the same."

— James, green.tv's Technical Director

Deadline to sign up by: 15^th May 2006
36 people signed up (11 over target)

Pledge “charitywwwsite”

"I will donate my web development skills to a not for profit organisation but only if 5 people will provide suggestions for this."

— James Ogilvie

Deadline to sign up by: 1^st September 2006
9 people signed up (4 over target)

Country: United Kingdom

Pledge “fishoils”

"I will donate £10 to support Ben Goldacre's Freedom Of Information Act request to Durham Council, asking for data from the fish oil trials they carried out in schools with supplements supplied by Equazen but only if 75 other people will do the same, (if such monies are indeed required to pay for this FOI request)."

— Suw

Deadline to sign up by: 11^th February 2007
87 people signed up (12 over target)

Country: United Kingdom
Place: Durham (view map)

Pledge “nouveaudriver”

"I will pledge at least $10 USD towards the development of the open source nouveau driver for the nvidia card series but only if 1,000 other people will do the same."

— David Nielsen

Deadline to sign up by: 8^th February 2007
1,367 people signed up (367 over target)

Pledge “openofficenow”

"I will use Open Office all the time instead of Microsoft Office but only if 22 other people will do the same."

— Cybersavvy, Open Source convert

Deadline to sign up by: 1^st July 2007
65 people signed up (43 over target)

Pledge “get-ew-new-hdd”

"I will put down $10 towards a new hard disk drive to be used for backing up our easyweaze server but only if 7 other easyweaze members will do the same."

— Chris Wagner

Deadline to sign up by: 5^th February 2007
7 people signed up

Pledge “web2psy”

"我将 创建并维护一个名字叫做“Web2.0与社会心理学”的群组Blog，只要10个人将 来写这个Blog,其中五人是社会心理学家,另外五人是Web2.0从业者。" (translate)

— 小容（Oliver Ding）, 咨询顾问，Blogger，互联网爱好者

Deadline to sign up by: 31^st August 2007
10 people signed up

Country: China

Pledge “gfwscript”

"我将 撰写一个关于GFW的视频故事脚本，只要10个当地的其他人将 与我一起协作。" (translate)

— Isaac, 中国互联网

Deadline to sign up by: 30^th August 2007
30 people signed up (20 over target)

Country: China

Pledge “gnubook”

"我将 写一本基于Creativecommons协议的关于自由软件(FOSS)理念以及其实践的书，只要10个当地的其他人将 做同样的事情。" (translate)

— Tony

Deadline to sign up by: 30^th January 2008
24 people signed up (14 over target)

Country: China

Pledge “pledgeapp”

"I will add the PledgeBank app on Facebook and help test it out but only if 10 others will do the same."

— Heather Cronk

Deadline to sign up by: 10^th August 2007
36 people signed up (26 over target)

Country: United States

Pledge “twincitiesnet2”

"I will host a NetSquared Net Tuesday in the Twin Cities, MN but only if 5 other local people will volunteer to attend and contribute one hour of their time to help before, during, or after the event."

— Jennifer Sly, YouthAssets

Deadline to sign up by: 15^th January 2008
5 people signed up

Country: United States
Place: Minneapolis (view map)

Pledge “wannacomputer”

"我将 参与、负责多项基于互联网的学习、交流社区，并将继续参与贡献与创造价值，只要8个网络上愿意支持我的朋友将 每个赞助我500￥人民币，用来购买一台工作电脑。" (translate)

— QienKuen, 厦门大学小草根

Deadline to sign up by: 1^st October 2007
9 people signed up (1 over target)

Country: China

Pledge “nokia-ogg”

"I will buy the upcoming Nokia N810 tablet once management promises Ogg Vorbis support but only if 10 other people will do the same."

— Michel, who otherwise really likes Nokia

Deadline to sign up by: 31^st December 2007
27 people signed up (17 over target)

Pledge “nextsite”

"I will give you a sneak peek at mySociety's next website ( before it launches ) but only if 100 other people will contribute a little local information to make it work."

— Tom Steinberg, Director, mySociety

Deadline to sign up by: 5^th January 2008
155 people signed up (55 over target)

Pledge “osmfieldwork”

"I will spend an hour OpenStreetMapping features on Caribbean islands from Yahoo! aerial imagery and will also donate £10 to the OpenStreetMap Foundation but only if 60 other people will do the same."

— Gervase Markham, OSM community member

Deadline to sign up by: 30^th September 2008
72 people signed up (12 over target)

Pledge “superwidget”

"I will build the Social Actions Super Widget but only if 100 people will pledge to Digg it upon launch."

— The Social Actions Labs Team

Deadline to sign up by: 20^th August 2008
103 people signed up (3 over target)

Pledge “AdaLovelaceDay”

"I will publish a blog post on Tuesday 24th March about a woman in technology whom I admire but only if 1,000 other people will do the same."

— Suw Charman-Anderson

Deadline to sign up by: 24^th March 2009
1,978 people signed up (978 over target)

Pledge “LeedsHackspace”

"I will donate £20 to Leeds Hackspace but only if 20 other people will do the same."

— Jonathan Stirling

Deadline to sign up by: 31^st July 2009
23 people signed up (3 over target)

Country: United Kingdom

Pledge “Dynamic-BGE-Mesh”

"I will Add dynamic mesh loading and freeing into the Blender Game Engine but only if 16 blender users will Donate $50 USD."

— Campbell Barton (ideasman42)

Deadline to sign up by: 20^th July 2009
18 people signed up (2 over target)

Country: Australia

Pledge “work4bletchley”

"I will give my earnings from one days work to the Bletchley Park Trust but only if 20 other people will do the same."

— Nigel Metheringham

Deadline to sign up by: 16^th September 2010
101 people signed up (81 over target)

Country: United Kingdom

Pledge “Xmarks”

"I will donate/pay $25 to Xmarks to live but only if 10 other local people will do the same."

— Ralph Finley, Elementary school computer teacher

Deadline to sign up by: 1^st February 2011
60 people signed up (50 over target)